This Diary is Not About Me.

This diary is not about me.

In the interest of full disclosure, I feel I should say I don’t have a web site. I don’t have a book. I don’t have an article or a column. I don’t have a constituency. I don’t have a consulting position. I have no official position with any campaign. I don’t have a role as an advisor.

I do have a car, and a house, flush toilet, computer, wireless connection, all the essentials.

But, this diary is not about me.

More below the fold. (But not more about me, since that's not what this diary is about.)

It isn’t that I couldn’t write about me, I could. However, I prefer to read diaries about the dKos community as opposed to a diary about me. I already know all about me, so there is little that I could learn from a diary about me, particularly if I wrote it. If anyone else anticipates writing a diary about me, I have no indication of that.

I prefer writing about things other than me. Sometimes writing about other things helps me clarify my thoughts about whatever the subject may be, whereas writing about me would not accomplish that, since I already know what I think about me. I like me and I like the fact that I am a good person, with a good heart. No diary I could possibly write about me could assist me in forming a more complete opinion of myself. That is why I would rather read diaries about the dKos community than write and read a diary about me.

Of course, if I did write a diary about me, the last thing that diary would be about would be self-promotion. There is just nothing about me to promote, and no advantage to promoting those things about me, so I wouldn’t do it. I don’t have anything to sell, though I have been thinking about gathering some things up that I never use to sell on eBay. I don’t know when I might post said items, though, so please don’t rush off to eBay looking to buy those items, whatever they might turn out to be.

I might write about me if I had a bigger ego. That could be another reason I could write about me. As it happens, I just don’t have that big an ego, so, no need to write about myself on that score. I don’t mean I am ego-less, either! Far from it! I just don’t feel that the recent diary list is the place for me to put a diary about me.

If I had an account on a smaller blog I could see doing a diary about me. I doubt it would get any more readership there than it wouldn’t get here, but that is neither here nor there. Since, of course, I am not writing a diary about me.

I don’t blame others on the Daily Kos for criticizing others for writing diaries about themselves. I do not criticize them for writing diaries about themselves, but I take their experience as a cautionary tale, which means that the last thing I should do would be to write a diary about me. I do think that those who write diaries about themselves sometimes take themselves a bit too seriously. But I don’t take myself too seriously, and I think that anyone who knows me will tell you the same! I don’t mean that I don’t take myself seriously, at all, but certainly not seriously enough to post a diary about myself.

The most important reason why I wouldn’t do a diary about me is that our political adversaries, conservatives of every stripe, have tried to turn this into a very selfish society, about me, me me. (That is an editorial ‘me,’ and does not refer to me, personally, BeninSC.) I don’t like their fixation on self, on personal advantage, particularly to the detriment of everyone else in the world. I believe in others (not conservatives, though), and I seek policies which accrue to the benefit of others, not myself. I am not about my personal advantage, which is, of course, yet one more reason to not do a diary about me.

(Blockquoted for emphasis, not to indicate that someone else wrote it. I wrote it, happy to say so, since the paragraph is not about me, any more than the diary is.)

Finally, of course, writing a diary about myself would mean that I lack self-confidence and self-respect. I just OOZE those! I have no reason to write about it. Not a big fan of the ‘me meme.’ As you can see.